A mind in transit…

The Law in These Parts [spoilers, duh]

The Law in These Parts. The disgusting actions and absurd double standards of the Israeli Supreme Court and military judges in the laws and rulings handed down over the last 40 years in Occupied Territories.

Making it all the worse is the staunch defense the retired judges that are the subjects of this documentary still put forward. As far as they were concerned, the form of justice they were serving was to make sure whatever the military needed to happen, happened. No authority figure in the Israel army was ever questioned, and each judge took the word of the army as absolute truth, while discounting the Palestinians at every opportunity, because they were the “enemy”. This was the system they were a part of, and a system they could break free of.

All the Supreme Court did was enable the military.Their involvement eases the mind of Israelis, in OKing the military’s actions. When increasingly large numbers of Palestinians were being arrested, the system started failing, as everyone had to stand trial. So what happened? They thought they’d speed the whole process up by bypassing that whole pesky trial aspect, unless a trial was explicitly asked for; the system was fine once again. Did this have to pass through parliament or anything? No, don’t be silly! It was the decision of one man, and who knows how many thousands of lives it affected. Completely absurd.

There’s a theory put forward that if the military had been left to their own devices, going about things in an even more violent manner, the people of Israel would have spoken out against this, and not let it going on as long as it has.

One interviewee says towards the end that these laws weren’t written for the people within the Occupied Territories; they were written to protect us. We wouldn’t be able to enjoy the safety that we do without their actions. “Us” and “we” was in the context of the people of Israel. I couldn’t however help but think of the current U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

It’s a mad world we live in where people in power think and function like this. It doesn’t seem like it’s stopping any time soon either. This is not justice, it’s delusion. A real eye-opener.